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The MOTIE held a workshop on international standardization for commercializing graphene. Performance of major energy and electronic products, such as solar cells and LEDs, is expected to be improved as scientists are actively seeking ways of commercializing original technologies of graphene. The Kor...

Scientists have developed a new technology process for paste coating which incorporates a printing technique. Scientists in Korea have developed thin-film solar cell technology that can provide high voltage at low costs using a groundbreaking paste coating process. The Korea Institute of Science and...

Research scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Electronics Science and Technology Division have developed a novel low cost, highly efficient spectral sensor for field analysis of solar cell irradiance performance and spectral distribution. Mobile solar power units have been recogniz...

Because hundreds of millions of new cell phones are sold every year just in the U.S., and only a small percentage of the old ones ever make it to a proper recycling facility, our modern mobile lifestyle is creating a huge e-waste problem. According to a recent study from the CDC that tracked the dem...

New room-temperature process could lead to less expensive solar cells and other electronic devices. Cambridge, Mass. — Silicon, the material of high-tech devices from computer chips to solar cells, requires a surface coating before use in these applications. The coating “passivates...

Bifacial, or double-sided, solar cells are able to generate energy from direct sunlight on their front side and from reflected and diffused light on their rear side. They work in either a vertical or horizontal installation and could majorly boost the efficiency of solar power systems. They’ve...

Israeli’s Sol-Chip has developed an everlasting solar battery that can power mobile and remote devices continuously using energy from the sun. The implications of an everlasting solar battery can’t be emphasized enough. Currently, devices in the agricultural, , medical, and security industries, not...

The consortium of 5 companies including Daesung Energy will construct and operate RDF plant in Daegu. Daesung Group (Chairman: Kim Yeong-hun) concluded on February 22 the execution agreement with the Daegu City government for the project of constructing a refuse derived fuel (RDF) production plant i...

Source: Triple Pundit We all know that the journey to a sustainable existence on this planet is going to be a difficult one. Indeed, it might well be what former Xerox CEO David Kearns said of the company’s quest for quality, “a race without a finish line.” I say this because absolute sustainability...

Source: Washington Post In Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and even Texas, there is a fundamental debate over “fracking” — the hydraulic fracturing of shale rock that, together with horizontal drilling, unleashes abundant natural gas. Mostly, it’s the loud voices at the extremes who are dominating the...

The federal government’s latest international energy projections are out, and there’s no question we’re living in a time of enormous change—and perhaps remarkably little progress. The International Energy Outlook from the U.S. Energy Information Administration tries to identify the big trends and pr...

According to Friends of the Earth (FOE), the UK government plans to end people’s right to be notified about plans to drill for gas and oil beneath their homes and on their land, amongst other changes in the law for onshore oil and gas planning applications. “It’s little wonder communities don’t trus...

Source: FuelFix Like many energy companies, Halliburton wants to attract more women scientists and engineers. So it conducted research that included asking its existing employees for advice. Putting locks on bathroom doors in the oil field would help, some of the women said. So would making overalls...

MOST households could save up to £300 a year by following just a handful of simple energy-saving tips. That’s more than home energy bills went up at the last big price hike. In a typical UK household, well over half the money spent on fuel bills goes towards providing heating and hot water. So...

Source: Bloomberg For the town of Glomfjord in Norway’s Arctic, the country’s oil boom has turned into a curse. Unemployment has more than doubled, people are moving out, and schools now risk being shut after solar-energy component maker Renewable Energy Corp. (REC) ASA closed a 200-person plant in...

The U.S. will continue to need crude from Canada’s oil sands because rising production from its shale formations is too expensive to maintain. Increased crude output from U.S. shale isn’t “sustainable production,” Mike Tims, chairman of Canadian investment bank Peters & Co., said yesterday at a...

Source: The Telegraph Green lobby groups have been defeated, as energy minister favours massive investment in gas generation Last week saw a truly momentous defeat for the green lobby groups which, in the past decade, have exercised almost complete control over Britain’s future energy policy. The fa...

The general director of one of Russia’s largest shipbuilders, Aleksandr Voznesensky, has announced to reporters that a floating nuclear power plant is currently under construction at one of Russia’s ship yards. He added that it will likely be ready for use by 2016. The Russians are calli...

Source: The Guardian Shell also plans $12.6bn refinery and petrochemical complex – which could become China’s single largest foreign investment Royal Dutch Shell plans to spend at least $1bn (£633m) a year exploiting China’s potentially vast resources of shale gas, the firm’s top C...